Best Film Ensemble

Technically, “Roma” has more Oscar Experts at Gold Derby predicting it to win Best Picture (9) than “A Star Is Born” (7), but the films are tied for first place with 7/1 odds because the Bradley Cooper/ Lady Gaga musical is consistently ranked a bit higher among all 20 Oscarologists projecting 8 to 10 nominees in the category.

“Roma,” Alfonso Cauron‘s artsy-indie tribute to his childhood in Mexico, has been in a virtual tie with “A Star Is Born” for the past month while Gold Derby’s Experts made frequent changes that usually resulted in the rival films retaining equal numbers of Experts predicting them to prevail, or at least giving them equal odds.

Over the past month, “Green Book” and “The Favourite” climbed up to four and fifth places after receiving standing ovations and wild cheers at the Toronto Film Festival, bumping “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “BlacKkKlansman” down to sixth and seven rungs. Meantime, throughout it all,, “Black Panther has deftly and coolly held on in seventh place.